Volume 10 , Issue 1

Happy New Year To Everyone

Duchess and Sadie's friend, Ruff says, "Woof ... Woof ... Ruff ... Happy New Year! Hope to be hearing and sharing your Okie Legacy stories in 2008 as we begin our NEW publishing date on Sunday, January 6, 2008."

[more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

Winter Ice In NE Kansas

"Linda, Just thought you might find this a "great" picture [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

Enid, OK Square in 1900

This is a picture of the far-famed Enid Square, taken from the southeast corner in about 1900, the year that Robert N. Gray came to Enid, OK. Maybe someone out there reading this newsletter knows of an ancestor who might have remembered Enid in the early years of 1900. We would love to hear their stories. As you can tell we have been reading through our Robert N. Gray book about Enid, Oklahoma (Observation From the Station South of Town).

[more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

Pioneer Lynn G. White - Alva Daily & Weekly Review

Here is a little tidbit about the republican newspaper, that we call today the Alva Review-Courier that I found on pg. 1525, A Standard History of Oklahoma, by Thoburn. Lynn G. White was editor and publisher of the Alva Daily and Weekly Review, in Alva, Woods County, Oklahoma. Mr. White had shown the technical, executive ability, the progressive policies and the civic loyalty that had not only made him distinctively successful in his chosen field of enterprise but had also given him secure vantage ground as one of the representative newspaper men of Oklahoma.

[more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

No Self-Service Gas In Oregon

"I didn't know you couldn't pump your own gas in Oregon, but at least until two years ago, when I visited my daughter in New Jersey, there was no self serve gasoline there [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

Pioneer William F. Hatfield - Alva, OK

Alva's Hatfield Park & Lake benefactor was William Franklin Hatfield, who held the distinction for being former editor, publisher as well as founder, of the first newspaper established in Woods County, Oklahoma. Hatfield developed the Alva Pioneer into one of the excellent daily papers of the state.

[more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---

St. Nicholas Hotel - Alva, OK

St [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

---